A surprise when shopping returns

[Paul]

An update on "A surprise when shopping".

http://forum.survivaluk.net/showthread.php?tid=2341

Yep it's happened again.
Local shopping and the same woman from last time walks straight up to me and asks if I'm a prepper again.

This time I'm ready for her. No fluster, no distractions, and got her talking.
Apparently there is a local LDS circle or whatever near where I live.
First I've heard about it but nothing new there.
Comes with keeping your head down I suppose.

Apparently I've swopped LDS storage tips with one of their members

Huh? Swopped storage tips?
Couldn't think who I would have spoken to but I carried on.
Eventually it came out.

I was talking in our local hardware shop about storing my garden produce to one of her 'family'.
That's it!
A chance comment about building a solar drying rack for onions and I'm nailed.

So what to do?
I asked about her "family". Isn't that what they call their fellow brethren? Anyway it worked.
Apparently a conclusion had been drawn that I might be "a lost soul" from another life and attempts were being made to "bring me back in".

OK, I'm usually pretty calm about things yet a feeling of 'entrapment' came over me. Hell I'm paranoid most of the time but REALLY!

So I quietly explained that I wasn't a 'lost soul', a prepper, a religious type, and didn't need saving.
All politely but I suppose you could say 'firmly'.

Discussion dropped, she fussed the dawg and left but not before quietly saying that her group wasn't going to give up on me!!!!!!!!!!!

Scary.
If I hadn't already got a good reason to leave town (and we really are trying to do just that), I sure as hell have now!